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Justice Scalia defends comparing laws against homosexuality, murder
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Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Dec 11, 2012 11:08am |
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Author | Justin Sink |
News Date | Tuesday, December 11, 2012 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia compared homosexuality and murder on Monday as he argued at a Princeton seminar that elected bodies should be allowed to regulate actions they see as immoral.
"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?" Scalia said, according to The Associated Press.
The justice's comments are sure to draw attention with the Supreme Court set to enter the debate over gay marriage in its coming term.
Scalia was asked about controversial comments he had made in the past that argued that the constitutionality of subjects like the death penalty, abortion or sodomy laws were all "easy" to decide by considering the Constitution as understood by its writers. |
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